Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

We have people who have served in local and county offices and school boards. They are serious candidates and will offer voters an alternative. We are going to take back our government fair and square. Through the electoral process.

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do. A candidate is going to go in and say, what do we need to do to win?

The reality is candidates always do what candidates have to do.

The perception that candidates who are war veterans are influencing the national party is wrong.

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Gerry Adams

We have a range of candidates who are ... working on a whole range of social and economic issues

Gerry Adams

We have a range of candidates who are bedded in their local constituencies over quite a long period of time, who are working on a whole range of social and economic issues as well as the big national question, as well as the peace process, as well as the whole issue of Irish unity -- so we're going to do well,

With those two, I told them I'd be glad if they'd be candidates in this particular race. They have experience.

John Thune

With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control of the message,

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

most of those are on our target list of candidates that we're going to go after next fall.

Many of the candidates are known only as names and not individuals. People in Iowa and New Hampshire want to get to know you individually, or feel they do. . . . That kind of courtship takes a lot of time and effort.

shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff positions.

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

People want to feel good about the person they vote for. Candidates use values to evoke a positive impression.

Charles Schumer

New York has been the springboard from which the last two successful Democratic candidates for president won the White House, ... There is no doubt in my mind that New York's good fortune can launch a Democrat into the White House for the third time in 30 years.

But they are still the candidates on the general election ballot. You issue the candidate a declaration of his candidacy,

More limited- or low-income candidates need to be treated with respect. ... If we equate the dollars spent with the legitimacy of a candidate, we're in a dangerous situation.

Great teachers like those we honor this evening got us here, and they will continue to lead the way, ... That only one can be chosen Teacher of the Year is a classic example of overcrowding. We have so many worthy candidates and only one spot to fill.

I don't want to be completely cynical, but when I hear that the top candidates were white males, I'm not surprised.

John Faso

I have a 20-year record of public service. I have a record of integrity. These are the kinds of ramblings of candidates who have no money and who are, I think, frustrated for whatever reason.

Stephen Harper

I am confident about the next election. We have our candidates in place, we have our financing in place and we have our policies ready to go if need be,

David Johnson

None of these candidates really seems to be energizing anyone.

One worry is that candidates will talk out of a thousand sides of their mouth. What if they have a thousand messages that are different for every tiny part of the population? It's much harder to get accountability for what candidates say.

The program is very important because it helps the recruiters be more effective to target qualified candidates for specific missions.

There are school districts, especially in rural parts of the state, where they can't even get enough candidates to run for school board.

Chris Patten

We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye

Bob Barr

Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.